confident women of colour
London
I come from Guadeloupe, in the French West Indies, where men are patriarchs of
the family and women are housewives. From that environment that I learned the
limiting beliefs such as “I am not good enough”, “ I cannot do that”. “Women
like me cannot do that” and so on. But inside, I felt that I did not want to be
like other women in Guadeloupe who could not speak for themselves, did not go to
work or if they did, were in very low paid work.